Chapter Eighty Five: Black Demon

The wall I crashed on was a black wall. It was so hard my body only bounced off of it. The floor I found myself in was narrow. Long narrow walls as far as the eyes could see. As for the height, it was no more than eight meters. A black ceiling made of black stones served as the roofing. Despite how black everything was, white light filled the floor. The light came from the floor which unlike the black walls and ceiling; was white and shiny.
“What is this place………?” staring at the long walls, I asked.
Two meters of space existed between the right and left walls. From the floor to the ceiling was eight meters. The walls stretched both behind me and in the front as long as the eyes could see. 
It was almost creepy how dark and long the walls were. Not to mention the silence. The walls seemed too thick. Maybe even eight meters thick. Only a faint sound came from them when I knocked.
“Anyway, I’ve got to leave this place before a monster shows up………”
The time in the dungeon, just like in the nightmare forest; is different from the outside. Five minutes in here maybe shorter in the outside. I can only stay for five minutes at most. It was already getting dark when I came here, it should be night by the time I leave.
This sword………….. I’ve never unsheathed it before. What does it even look like? Now is as good a time as any to use it. I have to save the girls.
I removed the demon sword from the back of my waist and held it up.
“.……………” the handle is somewhat shaped like a horn. It looks more of a dagger than a sword. The handle and the sheath are just about twenty centimeters tall. Is this really a sword? I don’t feel anything coming from it. Not that I can detect magic.
Analyzing the sword in my hand, it began to float. To put it precise, something was pulling it upwards.“Huh………….? what is……………………!!!!!!!!!????”
HOLY SHIT!!!
The thing pulling my sword was something faraway from a monster. It was a being so big. It used it’s fingers to pull the sword away from me. The sword, despite being twenty centimeters long, was not as tall as it’s pinky finger. The whole of it’s fist when tightened is bigger than my whole body.
I froze at the sight of what stood before me.
It took the sword away then stood straight. It’s head almost touching the eight meter tall ceiling. It’s body was wide. As wide as the narrow corridor. It’s legs and body were long, thick and humanoid. It was nothing like the monster the hero summoned earlier. Even a no magic like me could detect it’s overbearing presence.
It’s body was pure black from head to toe with a huge crystal mask covering its face. The mask only has one hole in the middle. It reminded me of one thing seeing it like that. The red demon I met back then in the nightmare forest. The demon that brutally killed the basilin family then disappeared. This was without a doubt a demon standing before me.
It covered the whole area of the floor easily. Aside from the gap between it’s legs, there was no way for me to go to the other side. 
It flung the sword it took from me behind it. It fell on the ground. I was able to see it clearly from between it’s legs.
Damn it……. not the sword.
Intense heat emanated from it’s body. I started retreating backwards slowly……….. “I don’t have time for this.” when my back hit a wall.
“What!?” I turned around quickly. 
There was no wall there just a second ago. Looking across to the other side, I found a similar wall blocking the passage. I was trapped in an enclosed space made of tough black walls.
Don’t tell me I have to fight? I don’t have time for this. The girls are probably in prison right now waiting to be called by the king. I cant have them punished.
What do I do? Do I fight this demon knowing I cant win? Do I take back the demon sword and try my luck with it?
Just when I glanced up at the demon, my eyes met with a black ball of magic centimeters away from my body. It seemed to be shot from the hole in the demon’s mask.
BAD-UMP!!
Both my barrier and the king barrier didn’t respond to it. It came at me really fast moving away was impossible.
No………!!
The ball hit me. I instantly fell to my knees anticipating the pain that would come along with it. To my surprise, it didn’t hurt at all.
“Huh?” what’s going on? An attack like that should have done major damage. don’t tell me……
The only reason a magical attack works on an opponent is because of the difference in magic signature. That is why a person’s magic doesn’t hurt him. Turning one’s magic on him would only replenish the magic lost.
I’ve experienced it time and time again. My barrier only reacts to foreign magic. 
People have called me a demon since I came here. If its magic doesn’t work on me then………… don’t tell me we are the same?
Ideally, even demons can fight other demons. But demons gotten from a powerful demon cannot fight their master. It was the master’s magic that was used to create them. I don’t want to believe this but Lust repeatedly mentioned how my magic reminds her of the demon queen.
No……….. I’m thinking too much. All I have to do is get out of here. I’ll leave the thinking for later. 
But if its magic doesn’t work on me, then this will play to my advantage. I need to get my demon sword to make that happen.
Thinking the fight will play in my favor, I tried dashing off between it’s legs to retrieve my sword. The sword dropped next to the wall on the other side. 
I’ll make this qui……………….. “KAAAAAAAAM!!” 
I forcefully crashed onto the wall behind me “Urgh!!!!” w-wha……. “BLE-EEH!!” I vomited like crazy falling to the ground.
I couldn’t see what happened. I was certain the sword would be in my hands when everything turned fuzzy. Its body didn’t even move when I got kicked back to the wall.
I couldn’t stop vomiting from the pain. “BLE-EEH!!” 
The vomit consisted of both food and a lot of blood. The smell of my own blood tore my head apart. I could smell nothing but blood. It poured out from my nose and eyes at the same time. I couldn’t feel my back.
I shivered vigorously “GRRRR!!” cold……… it’s cold.
I couldn’t control any part of my body. It felt so cold even my blood was frozen.
“KAAAAAAAM!!” “KAAAAAM!!” two consecutive kicks came in at the same time. I was stuck to the wall right after.
What is this? I didn’t see a thing.
My whole body was stuck in the tough wall. It was suffocating. I couldn’t breathe nor lift a muscle. Everything was blank. It was just like any other time when I was about to die. I’ll die and then……………
No!! I cant die!! Leila……….. Meila………… they are waiting for me.
It felt as though all my bones had been turned to dust when I subconsciously tried moving my muscles. 
I was in a post death state. Only my will kept me alive. Just the slightest change in that will take my life away.
“I cant die!! I cant die!!” was what my inner voice repeatedly yelled. In that subconscious state, I managed to raise my right hand. It came off instantly when the next attack reached me. It was a barrage of low punches. Despite its tall build, it was able to deliver countless low punches all at once.
“KAM!! KAM!! KAM!! KAM!!” the ceiling and walls started to crumble as I was pounded deeper into the wall.
Ribs broken and shattered, joints dislocated. I could no longer spill any blood anymore. I had none in me. It all poured out after his barrage. My eyes remained blank. I was supposed to have died a long time ago.
But I couldn’t afford to die. I had things to do. There were times where I revived after a whole day. Some times were less and the others were long. Dying right there meant risking the girls safety. What will happen to them if I don’t get there in time? I ran away from the heroes because they were too powerful and now I meet this? I cant win. I knew that from the second I laid eyes on it.
Deep inside the wall, my body was destroyed without remorse. Even my own mother wouldn’t be able to recognize me in that state. My neck was broken and about to fall off. I only hanged onto dear life for one reason “I have to save them.”
Heal……….. heal…………. heal…………… I said heal!!!
So far, I was only able to heal my wounds after dying. This time around, I was desperate enough to seek the impossible. Not once have my wounds healed while I was still alive.
I cant die here!! what will happen to Leila!!! Meila!!! and Lust….. I still don’t even know her name. Even though we’ve fought, I at least want to hear her name before I die. That’s why……..
“Heal!!!!” with my broken neck, I yelled.
Answering my prayers, my body immediately lit up with dark flames. The flames covered every inch of my body. I felt strength pouring into me. In just seconds, my bones were repaired and my wounds healed partially. I was still soaked in my own blood. The strength I got wasn’t from reviving. It was given to me by my will.
The sheet of my sword tore of from my waist because of that attack. It laid inside the hole in the wall next to me. I picked it up with all my might.
“Die!!” I flew out using all the strength I had gathered. The demon was out there waiting for me.
“Spinning drill!!!” with my flying momentum, I changed my movements.
Spinning fiercely with the tip of my sword pointing at its chest, I planned on taking my revenge.
My spinning stopped almost immediately. The tip of my sword was being held strongly “KLANK!” I heard the sound of metal hitting the ground. My eyes followed immediately.
It was the upper half of my sword. It was cut in two by the demon’s bare hands.
Just when the upper half of the sword fell and I was left shocked, a swooshing sound made its way to me “Weak………” the monster said thrusting up its clenched fist at me from below “GAJAAM!!”
It was as if a mountain was used to hit me. Its fist were so big not even a mountain could compare right before the impact. 
I was buried deep in the stone ceiling along with its fist despite the rock being incredibly hard and thick. A few rubble dropped to the ground. I followed soon after it pulled its fist back. I was back to the state I was before with my whole body destroyed.
How many times did that happen again and again? I forced my body to heal itself repeatedly time after time. I was only able to get less energy after each healing. With time, I was barely able to raise my hand. Huge holes the size of its fist were everywhere on my side of the narrow walls.
I cant ever win like this. Its speed is nothing like I’ve known before. My sword forged by Dambador is no more. I have nothing to fight him with. Even if I were to allow myself to die, this same outcome will only keep on repeating itself.
If only I was able to land my hand on that demon sword he took….. then maybe…………….
Is this how it ends for me? Defeated by a demon while my friends are waiting for me? What have I accomplished since coming to this world………………….? 
It shouldn’t be like this. What did I do to deserve all this……….? in this cursed world………
Come to me…….. demon sword. If you are a demon sword then I’m the demon king….. come. If you were made from the demon queen then I’ll be stronger than her. I don’t care if I’m human, demon or even a monster. I will protect my friends if it is the last thing I do.
On my knees in the pool of my bodily fluids, I stared at the sword from between the demon’s legs “Come!!” I yelled.
Yelling only increased the pain on me. The sword vibrated but showed no signs of coming.
I’ll destroy everything that stands in my way. “Now COOOME!!!” this time around, the sword, flew towards me as if being pulled by magic.
Seeing that, the demon clenched both fists ready for a barrage. I held out both hands to the sword. One to hold the handle and the other for the sheath.
Whoever attacks first wins…………By the time the sword landed on  my hand, his fists were just inches away from me. I used what remaining strength I had to forcefully jump back while unsheathing the sword with all my strength. I managed to evade his first attack but the other fist didn’t give a second to rest. It came after me immediately.
In one fluid movement, I turned the tip of the sheath towards it pulling out the sword “DIE!!!” 
“SHAAAN!!!” a loud sound echoed throughout when I unsheathed it. It became completely dark in seconds. 
The sword I unsheathed was already pointed at it. A black wave of energy burst out in a flash. It covered everything in the sword's path.
I fell on my butt when the dark particles started sticking together. Right before my eyes, the sword started taking shape sucking back the dark particles it released. The darkness slowly reduced. Seconds later, a very long shapeless sword was formed. It was made of dark particles like smoke.
The strangest thing of all was that the outside of the dungeon was visible. I saw the stars and the horizon.
I only realized what happened after that………..
The dark particles released by the sword destroyed everything in its path. Not the demon nor the dungeon walls. Even the side walls were greatly destroyed. The narrow walls were now vastly wide except for the side I fell in.
To destroy even the dungeon’s wall…………. what great pow………………………………………
That was the last I saw when I finally decided to die.
The first thing I saw after reviving was a shiny black stone about the size of my fist.
“Take hold, in your hand………….” it said to me in a clear voice.